We had two of those here a few years back. A guy drove up the main shopping street here and hit numerous people but killed none while another guy stole a bus and managed to kill two and made it quite a few miles. Its bloody scary stuff

'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'Ray Bradbury (RIP)

I know that this is entirely inappropriate to say, given the tragic subject matter (what can I say--I'm from a nation where every day hundreds of people get killed by guns, hit and runs, random kidnappings, domestic violence, gang warfare, and other acts of violence, so I've become uncomfortably numbed), but I originally thought that the title of this topic referred to a character in a book.

You're not completely alone. Many years ago there was a company just outside Cardiff called Barry Van Hire and we used to have a joke that went: Did you hear about the idiot who thought Barry Van Hire was a Dutch footballer?

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal